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From: root@ninja.dell.com (Randy Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: portable `rewind' for tape devices
Summary: Actually, no "echo" is required
Message-ID: <12942@uudell.dell.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 16:36:39 GMT
References: <19@kaspar.UUCP> <16081@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Dec5.114754.229@pegasus.com>
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In article <1990Dec5.114754.229@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
|(someone else wrote):
|>To rewind:
|>	:</dev/tape
|Or, to be portable between shells:
|	echo < /dev/tape

  Or, how about just "< /dev/tape" - works just as well and should be just
as portable...

Randy Davis					UUCP: rjd@ninja.dell.com

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